Friends at last? Distributed cognition and the cognitive/social divide

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-125

  Toon, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed Cognition; Edwin Hutchins; Nancy Nersessian; Ronald Giere; Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890789382     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2013.828371     Document Type: Article

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